BiB/Oa: What about gigs and tours ?
Motormark: We love it! Gigs are the best bit of the band, we like the writing, and recording, but playing live is really where its at! We think we do a pretty job of it and even if we never made another record we would continue to play live, its a our thing.


BiB/Oa: Any dreams (did they come true?) ?
Motormark: Yea, they kinda did! we wanted to have this band together, thats for sure, and we never really got along with the other members of other bands we were in. Its maybe cause we grew up together or something, it just works. a lot of dreams are still to come true, we are working on that right now.

Bib/Oa: Your first album, Pup:up was released on pop child, and Chrome tape is released on DHR, can you tell us a bit about the stories behind these deals?
Motormark: Yea! We made a 7" record ourselves and got distro and stuff and sent some copies to Spain where POPCHILD are based. They just loved the record and mailed us asking if we could go and play some shows. At the time we had a couple of offers from other labels but none of them seemed right, some were just stupid dance shit, some of them wanted us to sound a certain way, just not our kinda thing. Popchild said that they could put out an album, we liked them and they had no reason to do it apart form loving our band so we did it! We were on tour with Bis at the time who let us use their studio and we recorded POP:UP in 1 day. DHR heard POP:UP and had seen us play a few times, with Peaches I think and asked if would make record for them. They are cool folks, the label has always had a good strong female pressence with the girls in Atari and Lolita Storm, We Like DHR a lot, plan isn't to swap from Popchild to DHR, but to work on putting out records together, one in Spain, one in the UK.

Bib/Oa: What is really important for you in a label?
Motormark: Understanding we are a band with opinions and views. Of course we like to be starry, and dress up, do interviews, and fun stuff, but at the end of the day the songs are what matters to us and why we do it. the words dont just come out blah blah blah, we write about things that matter to us, and issues we want to make people aware of. both of these labels have understood that.

Bib/Oa: Did you find it difficult to find uncompromising deals?
Motormark: Not Difficult because we didnt really go looking for a deal. We wanted records out and in shops and on the radio, but we only spoke to people who we liked, we never sent demos to Sony or Warners, it just wouldn't have worked out for us or them!

Bib/Oa: Did you think about starting your own label ?
Motormark: Yeah we did, and put out a couple of things by Motormark and our friend Mart. I'm pretty sure we will release more stuff one day, we really enjoyed the business side of it all!

Bib/Oa: How do you write the songs ?
Motormark: Always start with the guitar. We just stand about for hours messing til something clicks then we expand on that, just what comes out. That goes into a dictaphone, some days we can get the guts of 5 or 6 songs together then next day we listen back to the tapes and start to program the drums THEN we make a proper start, middle and end to the song and write the rest of the vocal. Sometimes I write the vocals for Marko to sing, sometimes vice versa, which can change the meaning of the song completely, ifIi sing about experiences he has had, or he sings about my issues, it can make the point even stronger.

Bib/Oa: Can you describe the writing and recording processes on Pop:up and on Chrome Tape ? Were they songs you had been playing live before you recorded them ?
Motormark: Yeh, with POP:UP the songs had existed for about a year and had been played live loads so we could simply set up in the studio and play the live set. Anything that was messy or didn't work sonically, missing frequences etc could then be fixed by John and Steven at the studio, but it was easy cause we knew these songs inside out. Chrome Tape wasn't much different. We really liked the speed we recorded POP:UP and feel it contributed to the angst and energy of it, we wanted to capture that again with Chrome Tape and had lots of discussions with Richard and Andy the producers about how we didn't want it to sound over produced, that we only wanted to do 1 or 2 vocal takes and keep it fast and live, wrong notes etc left in. They organised a room in a derelict sweet factory and we just turned everything up and went for it.

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